Photography View Of The Port Bastia Corsican Church St. John Baptist 1911

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PH14<br>Dimensions<br>: 10.5cm by 4.5cm<br>Stereoscopic plate.<br>Quick and neat delivery .<br>“Old authors assure us of this and, in the legend they have transmitted to us, a precise reality undoubtedly appears. A woman from the Ligurian coast, seeing a heifer swimming away and returning very fat, took it into her head to follow the animal in its strange and long course. On the account she gave of the unknown land she had just discovered, the Ligurians made many of their companions pass through it. This woman was called Corsa, from which came the name Corsica. It is the eponymous legend that we find at the origin of all the ancient cities; but it is of recent formation, for the first name of the island is Cyrnos and not Corsica.<br>The difficulty was not to embarrass the old chroniclers, great lovers of the marvelous and accustomed to doubting nothing. There are other legends, and more prestigious, if not less fanciful. A son of Heracles, Cyrnos, would have colonized Corsica, giving it his name. Giovanni della Grossa believes that Corsica was populated by a Trojan knight, called Corso or Cor, and a niece of Dido, named Sica, whom Corso built the towns of the island and gave them the names of his sons and his nephew, Aiazzo, Alero, Marino, Nebbino. This is how Great Britain had its Brut, France its Francus and Corsica its Corso, nephew of Aeneas”1.<br>“The island of Corsica, named Cyrnos by the Greeks, was bathed to the north by the Ligurian Sea (Ligusticum mare), to the east by the Tyrrhenian Sea, to the south by the Taphros or Gallicum strait which separated it from Sardinia. (Sardinia), to the west by the Iberian Sea”2.<br>Later, in his study on the occupation of the island, Xavier Poli writes: "The only text on which we can rely, to argue that the Libyans occupied Corsica, is taken from the Phocis of Pausanias, which wrote in the 2nd century of our era: “Not far from Sardinia there is an island called by the Greeks Cyrnos and by the Libyans who inhabit it Corsica”. A not insignificant part of the population, crushed in a sedition, passed from this island to that of Sardinia and carved out a territory in the mountains where it settled. The Sardinians call these emigrants the name they brought from their country, Corsicans”3.<br>“The legend is more precise, Sardus son of Hercules and mythical founder of Sardinia would have had a brother Cyrnos. At the head of a large army of Libyans, both would have left Africa to come and settle, the first in Sardinia, the second in Corsica, giving their names to the two islands”2.<br>According to Ptolemy "The island of Cyrnos, which is also called Corsica (variants: Corsa, Corsi, Corsia), is bounded to the north and west by the Ligurian Sea, to the east by the Tyrrhenian Sea, to the south by the sea that separates it from the island of Sardinia ... »2.<br>And Xavier Poli concludes: “It was from Chalcis, the main city of Euboea, that the oldest colony that Greece sent to the West left; she went to found Cumae between the 11th and 8th centuries BC. AD. We know that one of the points of the territory of Karystos, one of the p<br>“Old authors assure us of this and, in the legend they have transmitted to us, a precise reality undoubtedly appears. A woman from the Ligurian coast, seeing a heifer swimming away and returning very fat, took it into her head to follow the animal in its strange and long course. On the account she gave of the unknown land she had just discovered, the Ligurians made many of their companions pass through it. This woman was called Corsa, from which came the name Corsica. It is the eponymous legend that we find at the origin of all the ancient cities; but it is of recent formation, for the first name of the island is Cyrnos and not Corsica.    The difficulty was not to embarrass the old chroniclers, great lovers of the marvelous and accustomed to doubting nothing. There are other legends,